kristarella.com in 2008

With the year coming to a close it seems an opportune time to reminisce. I don’t have lots of good memories of this year— having completed a thesis and having not enjoyed it much at all. However, looking back over the last year of posts I think it was a pretty good year for blogging and developing skills of all kinds.

September

You can tell August was a nasty month, since there were no posts really worth mentioning! To relieve a little of that uni stress and maintain some semblance of life I took part in the $50 camera challenge, which was excellent.

Somehow, what was honestly an attempt to keep my blog active and put to use some photos I’d taken with my phone, the Life through my phone post was a bit of a hit. I’ve been taking a few photos and even a video on my phone lately, so there could be another one of those coming up.

Now I’m thinking I was just starting to procrastinate at this point: I implemented clickable tags in the WP write panel. Of course, it’s obsolete now that WP has finally implemented that feature themselves. Yay!

October

October was Breast Cancer awareness month again. Although I wasn’t able to do as much as I would have liked (due to it also being thesis writing month *shudder*), I did turn my blog pink and I was able to go to a Pink Ribbon brunch.

November & December

These two months deserve to be rolled into one, since I not only had finished my thesis and was on holidays (until further notice!), but it was a big two months for me and WordPress.

I ported my blog design over to Thesis and I’ve never been happier with it (of course, I have ideas to make it even better). Along with that move came tutorials on full-width headers and full-width footers in Thesis.

At the end of November I went to WordCamp Australia, where I met some excellent people, started some good relationships, and heard some exciting things.

Wow, how fun to look back on the year! I remember all these things, too! Some of them seem like they happened so long ago and some, I think to myself, just happened yesterday, didn’t they?? Happy New Year! It’s still 2008 over here on the West Coast of the US!

Looks like you had a pretty solid year, and I’ve enjoyed reading all about it. I’m sure 2009 will be another great year for you and I wish you, your husband, and your families and friends, all the best for 2009. Enjoy it!